[MLB-WIRELESS] OT-ish: the myth of spectrum scarcity

[Clae]

 From the wireless longhaul list:

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/12/spectrum/print.html

"Interference is a metaphor that paints an old limitation of 
technology as a fact of nature." So says David P. Reed, electrical 
engineer, computer scientist, and one of the architects of the 
Internet. ... "There's no scarcity of spectrum any more than there's 
a scarcity of the color green. We could instantly hook up to the 
Internet everyone who can pick up a radio signal, and they could pump 
through as many bits as they could ever want. We'd go from an economy 
of digital scarcity to an economy of digital abundance."

Clae.

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"Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; bribery and corruption 
are common; children no longer obey their parents; and the end of the 
world is evidently approaching." -- Assyrian clay tablet 2800 B.C.

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